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Friday, September 7, 2012

Healthy Meat Consumption

This is a propaganda piece extolling the virtues of so called
naturally raised meat products with the usual gratuitous attacks on
GMO foods and modern husbandry practices. It is all taken on faith
that these are all bad things. The substance is something else.

All the meat that we eat has passed through the world of animal
husbandry and must continue to do so. For that matter, that is why
we can eat most of it. Otherwise, all meat except fish effectively
largely needs to be boiled in order to make it fit to consume. Fifty
years ago, beef was often a chancy buy simply because it was tough.
We never have that problem now.

Animal husbandry is steadily improving and it will respond to market
pressure. What is needed is labeling regulation. The moment that
happens, the consumer will start paying a premium for preferences.
That is good. Farmers know what is needed to respond to market
signals. Give it to them.

Healthy meat
consumption - How to distinguish good meats from bad meats

(NaturalNews)
Vegetarians who personally avoid eating meat for health reasons will
sometimes suggest to their friends that, in general, eating meat is
harmful to health. But the all-encompassing term "meat" is
a misnomer, as there are many different kinds of meat that a person
can eat -- conventional, feedlot-based meats; organic, grass-fed
meats; and everything in between -- and some meats are actually
healthy, while others are not.

Most of the
meat sold in the meat section at your local grocery store, whether it
is beef, chicken, pork, or fish, comes from animals that have been
raised in an industrial environment, and fed artificial foodstuffs
that would not otherwise have been a part of their natural diet.
Conventional beef, for instance, typically comes from cows raised in
confinement, that have no access to pasture, and that are fed an
unhealthy diet comprised of genetically-modified (GM) corn and soy
byproducts during the final stages of their lives.

Throughout
their lives, these same conventional cows are often pumped up with
artificial growth hormones, including antibiotics that help them
develop faster and preliminarily avoid the diseases they would
otherwise not develop if they were raised in an unconfined
environment. Because their living environments are routinely infested
with feces and filth, conventional cows are much more susceptible to
disease than, say, pasture-raised cows.

Unnatural diets
destroy animal health, quality of meat

Cows are ruminant
animals, which means they are meant to eat grass, not corn and soy.
When cows eat the latter, their digestive systems largely reject it,
making them more prone to developing chronic illness. The term
"feedlot bloat" refers to the digestive disorder
characterized by the unnatural development of foam in the rumen --
the rumen is the first compartment of a cow's stomach -- that is a
result of eating unnatural feed.

Corn and soy
byproducts, in other words, so disrupt cows' digestive systems that
the poor animals develop a severe inability to breathe, and sometimes
even die. High-grain diets are disastrous for ruminant animals
like cows, and yet it has become common practice in today's
industrial food system to feed cows high amounts of grains in the
last few months prior to their slaughter.

The situation
is much the same for chickens and pigs, which are typically held and
confinement and fed an unnatural diet that changes the composition of
their meat. Even fish meat, much of which is now "farm-raised,"
comes from fish that are not allowed to feed and develop naturally,
which results in a significant compositional change in the quality of
their meat.

The end result of such
atrocious animal husbandry practices is that the final meat product
is filled with antibiotics, hormones, and various other toxins, as
well as imbalanced fat profiles that promote chronic illness and
obesity. Industrial meat, in other words, is a serious threat to
human health, and humanity would do well to take a more
proactive approach in avoiding conventional meats for their own
well-being.

So what about
things like grass-fed beef? Or pasture-raised chicken and eggs? Or
wild salmon? These healthy meats often get lumped in with
the unhealthy meats into a single category known as "meat,"
which is both confusing and inaccurate. It turns out that animals
raised in their natural environments, whether that be pasture for
cows and chickens or streams and oceans for fish, produce meat that
is rich in essential nutrients, healthy fats, amino acids, and high
quality proteins.

A simple rule
of thumb is to avoid meat from animals that were fed GMO feed, and
that were raised in confinement, and instead choose grass-fed,
pasture-raised meat from organically-tended animals.

To learn more
about the benefits of grass-fed, pasture-raised meats, visit:

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